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Tom Rutter
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Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield

Art 31%
History 21%

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It's one of those days when the only way forward is to buy the new Mountain Goats album

There is a counterfactual article in this surely

No Troublesome Reign?

No 2-part Henry IV?

Alternative universe where he never wrote part 2

I have long been of this opinion

Wondering whether any metal bands have ever used a theorbo onstage for one of their slow numbers, and if not why not

The diodes down my left side

Annual whiteboard sketch of invention, nature's child, fleeing stepdame study's blows

I'm suddenly getting this sort of thing too. AI?

tech.yahoo.com/article/ring...

"Amazon is reportedly pitching its cloud and AI services to law enforcement agencies, and Ring [doorbell cam subsidiary of Amazon] is looking to work with Flock and other surveillance companies."

Reposted by Tom Rutter

tech.yahoo.com/article/ring...

"Amazon is reportedly pitching its cloud and AI services to law enforcement agencies, and Ring [doorbell cam subsidiary of Amazon] is looking to work with Flock and other surveillance companies."

Just Manchester and London, which I can't make ...

If you mean AM, good luck! I think he'd have turned me over to Topcliffe before lunchtime

Didn't know they were touring. Oh well, probably just as well for what's left of my hearing.

I was disappointed not to get a picture of 'Fuck off F****e' on the back of her jacket

Yes! Were you in the conga chain?

See you there!

Current task: making the response to readers sound less grumpy

Taken by the Fairies: Fairy Practices and the Production of Popular Culture in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mary Ellen Lamb

Shakespeare Quarterly
Vol. 51, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 277-312

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The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!

📅 Abstracts due 24/11.

Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
sites.google.com

Did a Triffid design this notebook?

Oh bad luck. Aside from the obvious things the Sugimoto art house is worth a look if you're at that end of the island

I was looking at that pumpkin 3 months ago ...

Remembering when, in the wake of a conversation in which I questionably proposed ideological overlap between Aphra Behn and Jilly Cooper, I produced this mashup:

The Magic Mountain Goats

Rules of the new semester: No matter how easy to find a given item may be on your module's VLE, if you are trying to guide a student to it in real time it will mysteriously disappear

Because obviously 'Basket of deplorables' worked really well for Hillary

Didn't Massive Attack have to change their name to Massive?